But there's a piece of Zen wisdom here that I always want to impart, which is: If anybody -- if anybody tells you to do something, including myself -- you know: eat this kind of food or do this -- you always ask the question: How do you know?

Cultivate understanding and all other faculties as much as you like: but oh! you Christian ministers, as well as others in less official and public positions, remember this: the fitness to impart is to possess, and that being taken for granted, the main thing is secured.